Estorian's leadership team is comprised of seasoned software executives who have an outstanding track record of launching award-winning products and growing companies to prominent positions in the marketplace. The team is deeply familiar with the business challenges highly–regulated industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Energy and Legal Services face and have success in delivering e-discovery, archiving and compliance solutions to help them better manage their electronically stored information (ESI).
Kevin Paul Riegelsberger
President and CEO
Riegelsberger joined Estorian in October of 2009. He has a 25-year track record of leading technology organizations to significant growth and profitability.
Kevin previously served as CEO of CapitalStream. During his tenure as CEO of CapitalStream, he successfully grew the company over 6-fold through operational excellence and strategic M&A transactions. In early 2008, the company was successfully sold to HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services company based in India. Riegelsberger continued to serve HCL as Senior Vice President, Financial Services and led HCL’s Product Business Group.
Prior to CapitalStream, Riegelsberger founded one of the industry’s leading financial and ERP software application providers, Platinum Software Corp. (now Epicor). In his 15 years at Platinum the company grew from a seven-person start-up to a publicly-traded company with nearly $300 million in revenue. At Platinum, Kevin held various senior-level executive positions in operations, sales, channel development and technology development. He was responsible for all international operations with approximately $100 million in revenue and 350 employees located in all major international markets.
Kevin studied computer science at the University of Dayton and the University of California, Irvine, and has served as board director for both public and private companies.
David A. Weber
Vice President of Marketing
David joined Estorian in October of 2009. He has extensive knowledge of business applications architecture and design coupled with real-world implementation experience from key product management, marketing and consulting positions.
Before joining Estorian, David served as Vice President of Marketing at Applied Discovery. In this role, David managed the Applied Discovery portfolio and go-to-market strategies with a special focus on delivering exceptional client experience, continuous innovation, and highly relevant marketing. David’s efforts contributed to Applied Discovery’s success in being named a top 5 ranked e-discovery service for 4 consecutive years in a row.
Prior to Applied Discovery, David was Vice President of Products at ADERANT, a leading supplier of business and financial software for legal firms. He successfully developed and implemented worldwide marketing and product direction strategies for technology companies serving businesses of all sizes in a variety of industries with INOVIS (formerly IPNet Solutions), Epicor Software (formerly Platinum Software), and Odetics Broadcast. He started his career in business systems consulting at Arthur Andersen & Co.
David earned a B.A. in Economics from Pomona College and serves as an advisor for a local consumer web application startup.
Ron Higgins
Chief Technical Officer and Founder
Ron is responsible for the architecture of Estorian’s products and he also manages the Product Engineering team. Ron’s significant product expertise spans email archiving and data management, hierarchical storage reference patterns, tape management and backup/recovery solutions.
Ron began his efforts to address the lack of scalable e-discovery tools in 2002 while working on a massive e-discovery project for the U.S. Department of Justice. Knowing that there had to be a better way, Ron developed Spherical Indexing™, a patent-pending technology that not only full-text indexes emails and attachments, but also indexes the history of those documents in your enterprise. This technology is at the core of Estorian’s flagship product – LookingGlass®. LookingGlass® provides an interactive solution for e-mail archive/retention, pre-case assessment and document culling; drastically reducing the cost and increasing the speed of e-discovery projects.
Prior to developing LookingGlass®, Ron founded Trilogy (later renamed TeraCloud), a storage analytics company. TeraCloud’s products provide storage utilization analytics to pin-point conditions and predictive events where storage utilization is sub-optimized. Estorian and TeraCloud merged in 2008 and now operate under the Estorian name.
Ron was previously an independent storage consultant advising corporations such as American Honda and Pepsi Co, after stints with Amdahl Corp. (now called Fujitsu IT Holdings) and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).
